Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:24:35 -0800 | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-pre11: PCI Wavelan card loses connection | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > I bought a PCI wireless card, a DLink-520 (I think, I forgot exactly > (it's at home), anyway, lspci dump is below). > > We (my father and me) made a fairly long helical aerial. > We are trying to communicate over ~15 km with a small wireless cell. > (~10 hosts, one AP). > > We can successfully associate with it, signal is weak as expected. > But after a short while our eth0 seems to 'fall off the net' > and while it looks like we can send packets, we see no incoming data > at all. > > Since I have almost zero wireless experience, I'll be happy if someone > with said experience can read further and say what bites us.
Personally, I never managed to get this hardware to work at all. And Orinoco is known to have problems with PrismII cards. Please use the HostAP or linux-wlan-ng driver. Good luck...
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